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Arts & Culture

Poet Baker to Speak at Oct. 16 Raymond Carver Series Event

Friday, October 11, 2013, By Renée K. Gadoua

The poet David Baker is the next speaker in this semester’s Raymond Carver Reading Series at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, in Gifford Auditorium. A question-and-answer session will precede the reading from 3:45-4:30 p.m. The event is free and open…

Campus & Community

Libraries Launch New, Improved Mobile Website

Thursday, October 10, 2013, By Pamela Whiteley McLaughlin

Syracuse University Libraries launched a redesigned mobile website on Tuesday, Oct. 8. In addition to an overall design update, the new mobile site is packed with mobile-optimized applications to aid students and researchers on the go.  New features include: the…

Campus & Community

2013-14 Remembrance Scholars to be Honored

Thursday, October 10, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

The 2013-14 Convocation for Remembrance Scholars, honoring 35 outstanding Syracuse University students from this year’s senior class, will be held Friday, Oct. 11, at 3 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The Remembrance Scholarships, among the most prestigious scholarships awarded by the…

Campus & Community

Transmedia Visiting Artist Penny Lane to Give Talk

Thursday, October 10, 2013, By News Staff

Transmedia Visiting Artist Penny Lane is to give a talk on Oct. 15 at 2 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer. Penny Lane is a filmmaker (and occasional video artist, writer, curator and professor of film, video and new media art)….

Campus & Community

“The Rhetoric of Environmental Policy”

Wednesday, October 9, 2013, By News Staff

The Department of Earth Sciences is pleased to announce a special public lecture by Hope Jahren, from the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Hawai‘i: “The Rhetoric of Environmental Policy” Wednesday, Oct. 23, 4 p.m. in…

Campus & Community

K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series, this week featuring Hope Jahren

Wednesday, October 9, 2013, By News Staff

The Department of Earth Sciences is pleased to announce a lecture by Hope Jahren, from the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Hawai’i: “The Effect of Elevated pCO2 on C3 Plants through Geologic Time,” Thursday, Oct….

STEM

SU hosts Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry Conference

Tuesday, October 8, 2013, By Rob Enslin

More than two dozen mathematicians from New York State and Ontario will converge at Syracuse University for the 23rd annual “Route 81 Conference on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry.” The conference, which is attended primarily by mathematicians from SU, Cornell…

Campus & Community

Protect Yourself from Phishing. Don’t Take the Bait!

Monday, October 7, 2013, By Christopher C. Finkle

SU’s observance of National Cyber Security Awareness Month focuses on the most challenging and widespread information security issues. Among the most pervasive and powerful threats is phishing, a method of attack that uses human nature to victimize people by getting…

Campus & Community

Remembrance Week Activities Announced

Monday, October 7, 2013, By Kelly Homan Rodoski

Syracuse University’s Remembrance Week 2013 is being held on the SU campus Oct. 6-12. The weeklong series of events honors the 270 people—including 35 students studying abroad through Syracuse University—who lost their lives in the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988.

Health & Society

Brooks Gump Named Falk Family Endowed Professor of Public Health

Friday, October 4, 2013, By Michele Barrett

Brooks B. Gump, Ph.D., M.P.H., has been named the Falk Family Endowed Professor of Public Health in the Falk College at Syracuse University. Gump joined the Falk College faculty in 2010 and is currently a professor in the Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition, where he also serves as the graduate program director for public health.